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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 28, 2009 11:08:48 GMT
It's gone a bit quiet on the Tull front at the moment so how about some memories of concerts gone by. The more unusual the better Thanks to Jeffrey for the idea for this. I went to all the UK concerts on the 1989 tour which started at Inverness at the Eden Court Theatre. Not only was the whole tour special but the first concert was a charity gig and Tull were very relaxed on stage even though it was the first show on the tour. The musicianship was superb, the venue was excellent and half way through there was a raffle to win a gold disc with the proceeds going to the charity. After the show, everyone in the band mingled with the concert goers in the bar, photos were taken, autographs signed and I've never seen the band members, including IA, looking so relaxed. A memorable concert.
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Post by jeffrey on Dec 29, 2009 13:06:26 GMT
my dad took me to one of the first uk conventions
not a tull concert as such 'cos blodwyn pig and mick abrahams were playing but it was certainly a memorable day
it made a geat change from the rubbish being played on the radio and in concert at the time
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Post by tommie on Jan 3, 2010 22:00:13 GMT
When I saw Tull in Spring, 1975 on the War Child tour. It was so incredible that I went 4 times in like 5 days! Two @ Nassau Colisseum and two @ MSG.
The 2 at MSG was so sold out that I had very top row BEHIND the stage, But it was still great, especially when they did the "Passion Play" segment and Ian climbed up the scaffold and san to us behind the stage.....'Colours I've none, dard or lite, red white or blue'.....
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Post by donl on Mar 19, 2010 15:21:01 GMT
my favorite show was radio city in'77 but i liked the stormwatch tour almost as much.
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Post by maxquad on Mar 8, 2011 3:01:17 GMT
First show for me will always be the most memorable not only because it was the first, but it was 1972 and it was Thick as you know what... Best part non musically was the band sneaking on stage with roadies in trenchcoats and one with a gas mask turning out to be Ian. The lights dimmed and he pulled off the mask and asked the audience "Does anybody know the way to Red Rocks?" Forever burned in my 16 year old brain as one of the best concerts of my life. Looking forward to #26 at the aformentioned Red Rocks this year.!
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 8, 2011 3:26:52 GMT
Instead of the war Child, 2-6-75 gig I've crowed about a million times...how about Milan 1989...the night after the dressing room tapes were knocked out in Zurich...my first gig in Italy and what a joy to see fans react to Tull the way USA, German and brit audience went ape$h1t 10-15 years earlier. The band clearly loved it and played hard, loud and inspired...89 was a great tour anyway...roadies during Jump Start, Allcock adding rock and roll his own way, Pegg happy to have Allcock along and Ian and martin fit and strong. After the gig I watched Ian chain smoke hand rolled cigs and during a full band meal at a restaurant, suspect the prices were being jacked up for us....as if i cared...hell, I would have paid if i wasn't hitch-hiking between hostels and putting great novels behind me ( not a lot of toilet paper in Italian hostels, ya know?).
Looking back at the contrast between Milan and, say, berlin the week before or even London early in the tour...I see why it's fun for them to to go to Moldavia and absurdistan and get treated like rock stars.
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Post by chea on Mar 8, 2011 6:50:21 GMT
I have great memories about all the J.T show i've seen, really. Last year Ian and the band came for theyr first time in my home town. Monza , Italy !! It has been a very good show, i'm happy to say, after about 40 J.T Concerts seen in my life, the venue is beautiful, Royal Villa and it was in warm July evening. I will never forget that night. M.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 8, 2011 9:12:38 GMT
This is one that, for reasons I can't remember, we never went to as much as I'd like to say we did. Hyde Park, 29 June 1968, with Pink Floyd, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Roy Harper and Jethro Tull. A longer clip of this, without sound, is on the British Pathe site at www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=73188and is one of the very few early Tull pieces on the internet with Mick Abrahams in the band. Tull featured Serenade To A Cuckoo, Cat's Squirrel and Stormy Monday amongst others, possibly Song For Jeffrey and Dharma For One. I found an advert for the gig (possibly) on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex programme that we did go to but no mention of IA & Co. It must have been June and not July, as the advert states, as Floyd were touring in America for much of July. www.brain-damage.co.uk/concert-dates/1968-tour-dates-concerts.html
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 1, 2011 7:55:31 GMT
i53.images obliterated by tinypic/2dh8f35.jpg[/IMG] pic by Carson reed An article in the Denver Post in May 2011 about the first Red Rocks concert www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_18194571?source=commented-skipframe-anneleightonmedia.blogspot.com"....retired division chief Kennedy said. "But in terms of problems, I encountered at venues over my career, that ranks in the top two or three."
And it would have been worse if Tull had taken advantage of the act-of-God clause in its contract.
"The clause says that if anything crazy happens beyond the control of the band, they have the right not to play," Fey said. "But he did play, and he played a full set.
"Ian Anderson is still my hero to this day. He went up there and hopped around with his flute and actually played a full set in the middle of the tear gas, in the middle of everything."Extract from a trilogy of poems entitled; Three Smells from 1972 At the Jethro Tull Concert at Red Rocks half-way up the concrete walkway into the amphitheater a teargas canister whistled four feet over my head and into the middle of a gaggle of bell-bottomed boys raining rocks down on two battered cop cars. They scattered, some up, some down, where we were, and we all retreated as the white cloud spread out into the morning air. My cousin, Montey, made sense for once: “what are you doing?” he screamed at the rock-throwing “hippies,” “those guys have guns.” Down in the parking lot, a Beetle burned so ferociously that the yellow flames rose forty feet into the air. Who or why would anyone harm a Volkswagon? asked my drug-addled brain. Somebody call the ASPCA. My first whiff of teargas defined what is meant by the word bitterness, and I can taste it now in my mouth as I write. Carson Reed denvercrossroads.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/carson-reed/
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 1, 2011 16:00:10 GMT
But how did the 'white cloud spread out into the morning air' ? The riot and police over-reaction took place the night of the gig and all was calm by midnite.......poetic license?
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 26, 2012 11:20:45 GMT
Friends Of The Earth Benefit Concert at The Clapham Grand, London on the 11th of August 1994"Old flautists never die" Nicholas Barber The Independent: Sunday 14 August 1994
To join Jethro Tull, you need either shaggy hair, a beard or a bald patch. Ian Anderson has all three, which is why they put him in charge. The look suits him. While the Stones roll further and further from the age they want to be, Jethro Tull have only just reached the age they should have been all along. From day one they have veered between pop's elderly relatives: blues, folk and progressive rock. They have always been the band with a flautist with perfect upper-crust enunciation. The band with beards. Even as young men they were ageing hippies. When other artists in their twenties were singing about their high-school days, Jethro Tull released Too Old To Rock'N'Roll . . .
This may explain why it is that now - when in rock 'n' roll terms they really are ageing - they can still come up with such a dynamic performance as they do at their Friends of the Earth benefit gig at the Clapham Grand. Unlike Jagger's struts, Anderson's movements are not imitations of youth. His trademark standing on one leg to play the flute, throwing and spinning the instrument with an expertise that suggests a spell in the majorettes, would be mad - and entertaining - coming from someone of any age. The music, its emphasis more on unexpectedly tough, bassy blues-rock than on the Tolkienesque symphonies of their middle period, is expert and exciting.
As this is a charity concert, they bring along some guests: Mick Abrahams, their former guitarist, Roy Harper, a bland old man of folk, and Gary Brooker of Procul Harum, who sings 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'.
Less Live Aid than Still Alive Aid maybe, but Jethro Tull are in the prime of life. Ian Anderson, with DAT Player Backing Some Day The Sun Won't Shine For You So Much Trouble Andy Giddings’ Parrot - Ian Anderson & Andy Giddings Wond'ring Aloud Cheap Day Return Ian Anderson, Andy Giddings & Martin BarreLife's A Long Song Martin Barre BandBug Way Before Your Time Steal (with Mel Collins) Crossfire Purple Haze Jethro Tull with Mick AbrahamsVictim Move On Alone Happy Birthday - (To Ian Anderson) Ballad Of Billy The Kid Stormy Monday Blues Jethro TullThick As A Brick Bouree Serenade To A Cuckoo With You There To Help Me Beggar's Farm (with Mel Collins) Roy HarperTom Tiddler's Ground (with Ian Anderson) The Same Old Rock The Tallest Tree (with Ian Anderson) Gary BrookerHomburg Conquistador (with Jethro Tull) A Whiter Shade Of Pale (with Jethro Tull) Jethro TullMy Sunday Feeling Budapest Hoochie Coochie Man (with Gary Brooker & Mick Abrahams) Locomotive Breath Dharma For One
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 17, 2012 8:35:57 GMT
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